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Looking for ways to cut costs and generally be more energy efficient in your day-to-day life? Radiant floor heat combined with the proper fuel, a high efficiency heat source and good building practices will give you dramatic fuel savings and a greater level of comfort over any other system. Your radiant system could use 30% less fuel than the average new forced air heating system. Installing a high efficiency air conditioning system will result in dramatic energy savings year-round.

When you’re building or renovating your home, you might initially think there’s not much to decide on regarding home heating systems. We beg to differ! Why should you choose electric radiant heat over forced air heating? Glad you asked.

One major reason is that nothing else can compare to the extraordinary comfort offered through in-floor electric radiant heat. Combined with the proper cooling system, electric radiant floor heat offers the most efficient and comfortable living conditions available in any climate. Instead of rising like warm air, radiant heat starts by warming the coldest and closest objects from its source, which is why radiant heating systems are generally placed under floors.

Electric Radiant Heat Tip: Because radiant heat reduces dust mites and air borne allergens by 60%-90%, no other heating system can reduce allergies as effectively as electric radiant heat.

Nothing else can compare to the extraordinary comfort offered through in-floor electric radiant heat. Combined with the proper cooling system, electric radiant floor heat offers the most efficient and comfortable living conditions available in any climate. Have you ever noticed during the winter how your feet can be icy cold, while you’re upper body and head are sweating? This is because traditional forced air heating puts the heat in the air, which rises to our head level. This leaves the air at our feet cold, and the air at our head hot.

This heating the top of the room is really not optimal, because our upper body and head areas are generally hot due to the fact that this is where the majority of our body heat escapes. Having electric radiant heat in the floor increases our comfort by bringing the heat to our feet, which leaves the air at head level cooler. This scenario creates the perfect level of comfort.

Electric radiant heat is a unique transfer of energy that naturally searches out colder objects to warm. Instead of rising like warm air, radiant heat starts by warming the coldest and closest objects from its source. This is why radiant heating systems are generally placed under floors – either during construction or even later during a remodeling.

Electric Radiant Heat Tip: Instead of rising like warm air, electric radiant heat starts by warming the coldest and closest objects from its source, which is why radiant heating systems are generally placed under floors.

Confused about radiant heat? Well, if you have ever strolled barefoot along the beach on a sunny day and felt the warm sand underneath your feet, or held a warm mug, then you have felt radiant heat. Objects absorb radiant heat until they are the same temperature as the heat source, after which the heat slowly escapes to other areas that are colder, such as the air. The same principle is available to heat your home, using electric radiant heat.

Electric radiant heat is a unique transfer of energy that naturally searches out colder objects to warm. Instead of rising like warm air, radiant heat starts by warming the coldest and closest objects from its source. This is why radiant heating systems are generally placed under floors.

As we all know, heating a bathroom can be responsible for a significant amount of your utility bills year-round. Bathroom heating is one such energy consideration because you want the heat quickly, but for only a short period of time. Therefore traditional forced air heating systems for a bathroom can be very inefficient, and waste a lot of energy. However, electric radiant heat can make you feel comfortably warm without having to heat all the air in the bathroom.

Electric Radiant Heat Tip: While you might think it’s just a cost-efficient heating system for bathrooms and kitchens, electric radiant heat can also increase the comfort level of these rooms because they concentrate the heat in the areas that are generally the coolest, such as tile floors.

Don’t miss this boat!  With new heating systems becoming more available to homeowners today, you too could enjoy a little luxury like a toasty warm towel in your home bathroom.

Not too long ago, they were high luxury items seen only in high-end decorating magazines, television shows with tours of millionaires’ homes, and ultra-exclusive resort hotels overseas, but more and more today, towel warmers are an affordable and comfortable touch to add to residential bathrooms. Towel warmers not only warm and dry your towels, but they can also heat your entire bathroom. Now you can enjoy the comfort and style that Europeans have been enjoying for years using these heating systems.

Towel warmers, such as Zehnder bathroom radiators, provide an even and safe radiant heat source with the added benefit of warming and drying towels. The exquisite design of today’s modern towel warmers will add both beauty and warmth to your home’s bathroom.

Heating Systems Tip: Many American interior designers and builders are adopting electric heating systems as fashionable and luxurious accessories to bathrooms, basements and home offices. Take a cue from these experts in home comforts and consider all of your options on the market today for your primary and secondary heating solutions.

You’ll be surprised! You might think that electric radiant heat is difficult and time-consuming to install, and has the risk of uneven heating spacing – but times have changed since those early days of the radiant heat technology. Let’s get you up-to-date on how many improvements have been made to electric radiant heat, contributing to it fast becoming a popular choice for energy-efficient and cost-efficient home heating.

It used to be that electric radiant heat was, once upon a time, supplied as one long continuous length of cable with the consumer having to weave the cable up and down the floor at a pre-determined spacing and making a return loop to complete the circuit.

However, recent and improved designs in electric radiant heat cables have a built-in return meaning that you only have one end to connect instead of having to close the circuit by bringing each end of the cable back to the thermostat. Far from complicated to install, electric radiant heat cable mats have taken the hard work out of the install by having the radiant heating cable already pre-spaced on to a nylon mesh and all you have to do is simply start at your thermostat location and roll it out over the floor until it’s all used up.

Electric Radiant Heat Tip: Warmzone reports that the innovative electric radiant heat cable mats save time and offer a lowered risk of having hot and cold spots.

Maybe you’ve had it in the back of your mind that, someday, you’d like to upgrade the heating in your home, or at least in some areas of your home. After all, you might have spent all of the winter thus far avoiding your basement, a spare room, or a guest bath because it’s just too cold in those areas to spend very long. You never quite got around to the upgrades, because you might’ve assumed the cost would be too high to be worth it.

The reality is that it’s actually rather cost-effective to add heating to a small area, using a electric radiant heat system. Because electric radiant heat systems are easy to install and have a very low start-up cost, they offer more cost-savings than you might assume. An electric thermostat is all that is required and costs only about $100-$200.

Another advantage of electric radiant floor heating over a warm-water system is the floor build up or height. Floor build up can be from as little as 2mm. The electric cables are usually installed onto an insulation board or directly onto the subfloor or padding (under carpet or laminate), then the floor covering is placed directly over the heating system or thinset.

Electric Radiant Heat Tip: The typically speedy installation time of electric radiant floor heating is worth noting; it generally only takes one half-day to a day depending on thesize of the area in which to install the system.